Hi everyone,
I’m trying to detect if Developer Mode is enabled on iOS 16+ devices using Swift but haven’t found any official APIs or documentation for this. Are there Apple-recommended ways to achieve this, or is it restricted for privacy/security reasons?
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I often get questions about third-party crash reporting. These usually show up in one of two contexts:
Folks are trying to implement their own crash reporter.
Folks have implemented their own crash reporter and are trying to debug a problem based on the report it generated.
This is a complex issue and this post is my attempt to untangle some of that complexity.
If you have a follow-up question about anything I've raised here, please put it in a new thread with the Debugging tag.
IMPORTANT All of the following is my own direct experience. None of it should be considered official DTS policy. If you have a specific question that needs a direct answer — perhaps you’re trying to convince your boss that implementing your own crash reporter is a very bad idea — start a dedicated thread here on the forums and we can discuss the details there. Use whatever subtopic is appropriate for your issue, but make sure to add the Debugging tag so that I see it go by.
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Scope
First, I can only speak to the technical side of this issue. There are other aspects that are beyond my remit:
I don’t work for App Review, and only they can give definitive answers about what will or won’t be allowed on the store.
Implementing your own crash reporter has significant privacy implications.
IMPORTANT If you implement your own crash reporter, discuss the privacy impact with a lawyer.
This post assumes that you are implementing your own crash reporter. A lot of folks use a crash reporter from another third party. From my perspective these are the same thing. If you use a custom crash reporter, you are responsible for its behaviour, both good and bad, regardless of where the actual code came from.
Note If you use a crash reporter from another third party, run the tests outlined in Preserve the Apple Crash Report to verify that it’s working well.
General Advice
I strongly advise against implementing your own crash reporter. It’s very easy to create a basic crash reporter that works well enough to debug simple problems. It’s impossible to implement a good crash reporter, one that’s reliable, binary compatible, and sufficient to debug complex problems. The bulk of this post is a low-level explanation of that impossibility.
Rather than attempting the impossible, I recommend that you lean in to Apple’s crash reporter. In recent years it’s acquired some really cool new features:
If you’re creating an App Store app, the Xcode organiser gives you easy, interactive access to Apple crash reports.
If you’re an enterprise developer, consider switching to Custom App Distribution. This yields all the benefits of App Store distribution without your app being generally available on the store.
iOS 14 and macOS 12 report crashes in MetricKit. This is a very cool feature, and I’m surprised by how few people use it effectively.
If you previously dismissed Apple crash reports as insufficient, I encourage you to reconsider that decision.
Why Is This Impossible?
Earlier I said “It’s impossible to implement a good crash reporter”, and I want to explain why I’m confident enough in my conclusions to use that specific word. There are two fundamental problems here:
On iOS (and the other iOS-based platforms, watchOS and tvOS) your crash reporter must run inside the crashed process. That means it can never be 100% reliable. If the process is crashing then, by definition, it’s in an undefined state. Attempting to do real work in that state is just asking for problems [1].
To get good results your crash reporter must be intimately tied to system implementation details. These can change from release to release, which invalidates the assumptions made by your crash reporter. This isn’t a problem for the Apple crash reporter because it ships with the system. However, a crash reporter that’s built in to your product is always going to be brittle.
I’m speaking from hard-won experience here. I worked for DTS during the PowerPC-to-Intel transition, and saw a lot of folks with custom crash reporters struggle through that process.
Still, this post exists because lots of folks ignore this reality, so the subsequent sections contain advice about specific technical issues.
WARNING Do not interpret any of the following as encouragement to implement your own crash reporter. I strongly advise against that. However, if you ignore my advice then you should at least try to minimise the risk, which is what the rest of this document is about.
[1] On macOS it’s possible for your crash reporter to run out of process, just like the Apple crash reporter. However, possible is not the same as easy. In fact, running out of process can make things worse: It prevents you from geting critical state for the crashed process without being tightly bound to OS implementation details. It would be nice if Apple provided APIs for this sort of thing, but that’s currently not the case.
Preserve the Apple Crash Report
You must ensure that your crash reporter doesn’t disrupt the Apple crash reporter. This is important for three reasons:
Some fraction of your crashes will not be caused by your code but by problems in framework code, and accurate Apple crash reports are critical in diagnosing such issues.
When dealing with really hard-to-debug problems, you need the more obscure info that’s shown in the Apple crash report.
If you’re working with someone from Apple (here on the forums, via a bug report, or a DTS case, or whatever), they’re going to want an accurate Apple crash report. If your crash reporter is disrupting the Apple crash reporter — either preventing it from generating crash reports entirely [1], or distorting those crash reports — that limits how much they can help you.
IMPORTANT This is not a theoretical concern. The forums have many threads where I’ve been unable to help folks debug a gnarly problem because their third-party crash reporter didn’t preserve the Apple crash report (see here, here, and here for some examples).
To avoid these issues I recommend that you test your crash reporter’s impact on the Apple crash reporter. The basic idea is:
Create a program that generates a set of specific crashes.
Run through each crash.
Verify that your crash reporter produces sensible results.
Verify that the Apple crash reporter produces the same results as it does without your crash reporter
With regards step 1, your test suite should include:
An un-handled language exception thrown by your code
An un-handled language exception thrown by the OS (accessing an NSArray out of bounds is an easy way to get this)
Various machine exceptions (at a minimum, memory access, illegal instruction, and breakpoint exceptions)
Stack overflow
Make sure to test all of these cases on both the main thread and a secondary thread.
With regards step 4, check that the resulting Apple crash report includes correct values for:
The exception info
The crashed thread
That thread’s state
Any application-specific info, and especially the last exception backtrace
[1] A particularly pathological behaviour here is to end your crash reporter by calling exit. This completely suppresses the Apple crash report. Some third-party language runtimes ‘helpfully’ include such a crash reporter, which makes it very hard to debug problems that occur within your process but outside of that language.
Signals
Many third-party crash reporters use UNIX signals to catch the crash. This is a shame because using Mach exception handling, the mechanism used by the Apple crash reporter, is generally a better option. However, there are two reasons to favour UNIX signals over Mach exception handling:
On iOS-based platforms your crash reporter must run in-process, and doing in-process Mach exception handling is not feasible.
Folks are a lot more familiar with UNIX signals. Mach exception handling, and Mach messaging in general, is pretty darned obscure.
If you use UNIX signals for your crash reporter, be aware that this API has some gaping pitfalls. First and foremost, your signal handler can only use async signal safe functions [1]. You can find a list of these functions in sigaction man page [2] [3].
WARNING This list does not include malloc. This means that a crash reporter’s signal handler cannot use Objective-C or Swift, as there’s no way to constrain how those language runtimes allocate memory [4]. That means you’re stuck with C or C++, but even there you have to be careful to comply with this constraint.
The Operative: It’s worse than you know.
Captain Malcolm Reynolds: It usually is.
Many crash reports use functions like backtrace (see its man page) to get a backtrace from their signal handler. There’s two problems with this:
backtrace is not an async signal safe function.
backtrace uses a naïve algorithm that doesn’t deal well with cross signal handler stack frames [5].
The latter point is particularly worrying, because it hides the identity of the stack frame that triggered the signal.
If you’re going to backtrace out of a signal, you must use the crashed thread’s state (accessible via the handlers uap parameter) to start your backtrace.
Apropos that, if your crash reporter wants to log the state of the crashed thread, that’s the place to get it.
Your signal handler must be prepared to be called by multiple threads. A typical crashing signal (like SIGSEGV) is delivered to the thread that triggered the machine exception. While your signal handler is running on that thread, other threads in your process continue to run. One of these threads could crash, causing it to call your signal handler.
It’s a good idea to suspend all threads in your process early in your signal handler. However, there’s no way to completely eliminate this window.
Note The need to suspend all the other threads in your process is further evidence that sticking to async signal safe functions is required. An unsafe function might depend on a thread you’ve suspended.
A typical crashing signal is delivered on the thread that triggered the machine exception. If the machine exception was caused by a stack overflow, the system won’t have enough stack space to call your signal handler. You can tell the system to switch to an alternative stack (see the discussion of SA_ONSTACK in the sigaction man page) but that isn’t a complete solution (because of the thread issue discussed immediately above).
Finally, there’s the question of how to exit from your signal handler. You must not call exit. There’s two problems with doing that:
exit is not async signal safe. In fact, exit can run arbitrary code via handlers registered with atexit. If you want to exit the process, call _exit.
Exiting the process is a bad idea anyway, because it will prevent the Apple crash reporter from running. This is very poor form. For an explanation as to why, see Preserve the Apple Crash Report (above).
A better solution is to unregister your signal handler (set it to SIG_DFL) and then return. This will cause the crashed process to continue execution, crash again, and generate a crash report via the Apple crash reporter.
[1] While the common signals caught by a crash reporter are not technically async signals (except SIGABRT), you still have to treat them as async signals because they can occur on any thread at any time.
[2] It’s reasonable to extend this list to other routines that are implemented as thin shims on a system call. For example, I have no qualms about calling vm_read (see below) from a signal handler.
[3] Be aware, however, that even this list has caveats. See my Async Signal Safe Functions vs Dyld Lazy Binding post for details.
[4] I expect that it’ll eventually be possible to write signal handlers in Swift, possibly using some facility that evolves from the the existing, but unsupported, @_noAllocation and @_noLocks attributes. If you’d like to get involved with that effort, I recommend that engage with the Swift Evolution process.
[5] Cross signal handler stack frames are pushed on to the stack by the kernel when it runs a signal handler on a thread. As there’s no API to learn about the structure of these frames, there’s no way to backtrace across one of these frames in isolation. I’m happy to go into details but it’s really not relevant to this discussion [6]. If you’re interested, start a new thread with the Debugging tag and we can chat there.
[6] (Arg, my footnotes have footnotes!) The exception to this is where your trying to generate a crash report for code running in a signal handler. That’s not easy, and frankly you’re better off avoiding signal handlers in general. Where possible, handle signals via a Dispatch event source.
Reading Memory
A signal handler must be very careful about the memory it touches, because the contents of that memory might have been corrupted by the crash that triggered the signal. My general rule here is that the signal handler can safely access:
Its code
Its stack (subject to the constraints discussed earlier)
Its arguments
Immutable global state
In the last point, I’m using immutable to mean immutable after startup. It’s reasonable to set up some global state when the process starts, before installing your signal handler, and then rely on it in your signal handler.
Changing any global state after the signal handler is installed is dangerous, and if you need to do that you must be careful to ensure that your signal handler sees consistent state, even though a crash might occur halfway through your change.
You can’t protect this global state with a mutex because mutexes are not async signal safe (and even if they were you’d deadlock if the mutex was held by the thread that crashed). You should be able to use atomic operations for this, but atomic operations are notoriously hard to use correctly (if I had a dollar for every time I’ve pointed out to a developer they’re using atomic operations incorrectly, I’d be very badly paid (-: but that’s still a lot of developers!).
If your signal handler reads other memory, it must take care to avoid crashing while doing that read. There’s no BSD-level API for this [1], so I recommend that you use vm_read.
[1] The traditional UNIX approach for doing this is to install a signal handler to catch any memory access exceptions triggered by the read, but now we’re talking signal handling within a signal handler and that’s just silly.
Writing Files
If your want to write a crash report from your signal handler, you must use low-level UNIX APIs (open, write, close) because only those low-level APIs are documented to be async signal safe. You must also set up the path in advance because the standard APIs for determining where to write the file (NSFileManager, for example) are not async signal safe.
Offline Symbolication
Do not attempt to do symbolication from your signal handler. Rather, write enough information to your crash report to support offline symbolication. Specifically:
The addresses to symbolicate
For each Mach-O image in the process:
The image’s path
The image’s build UUID [1]
The image’s load address
You can get most of the Mach-O image information using the APIs in <mach-o/dyld.h> [2]. Be aware, however, that these APIs are not async signal safe. You’ll need to get this information in advance and cache it for your signal handler to record.
This is complicated by the fact that the list of Mach-O images can change as you process loads and unloads code. This requires you to share mutable state with your signal handler, which is exactly what I recommend against in Reading Memory.
Note You can learn about images loading and unloading using _dyld_register_func_for_add_image and _dyld_register_func_for_remove_image respectively.
[1] If you’re unfamiliar with that term, see TN3178 Checking for and resolving build UUID problems and the documents it links to.
[2] I believe you’ll need to parse the Mach-O load commands to get the build UUID.
What to Include
When deciding what to include in a crash report, there’s a three-way balance to be struck:
The more information you include, the easier it is to diagnose problems.
Some information is hard to obtain, either because there’s no public API to get that information, or because the API is not available to your crash reporter.
Some information is so privacy-sensitive that it has no place in a crash report.
Apple’s crash reporter strikes its own balance here, and I recommend that you try to include everything that it includes, subject to the limitations described in the second point.
Here’s what I’d considered to be a minimal list:
Information about the machine exception that triggered the crash
For memory access exceptions, the address of the access that triggered the crash
Backtraces of all the threads (sometimes the backtrace of a non-crashing thread can yield critical information about the crash)
The crashed thread
Its thread state
A list of Mach-O images, as discussed in the Offline Symbolication section
IMPORTANT Make sure you report the thread backtraces in a consistent order. Without that it’s hard to correlate information across crash reports.
Revision History
2025-08-25 Added some links to examples of third-party crash reports not preserving the Apple crash report. Added a link to TN3178. Made other minor editorial changes.
2022-05-16 Fixed a broken link.
2021-09-10 Expanded the General Advice section to include pointers to Apple crash report resources, including MetricKit. Split the second half of that section out in to a new Why Is This Impossible? section. Made minor editoral changes.
2021-02-27 Fixed the formatting. Made minor editoral changes.
2019-05-13 Added a reference to my Async Signal Safe Functions vs Dyld Lazy Binding post.
2019-02-15 Expanded the introduction to the Preserve the Apple Crash Report section.
2019-02-14 Clarified the complexities of an out-of-process crash reporter. Added the What to Include section. Enhanced the Signals section to cover reentrancy and stack overflow. Made minor editoral changes.
2019-02-13 Made minor editoral changes. Added a new footnote to the Signals section.
2019-02-12 First posted.
We are trying to create a screentime app using the Family Controls as well as Device activity frameworks. The build succeeds but while pushing to an iphone we are getting an info.plist file for deviceactivity.framework could not be found error. For reference when using the Screentime API a physical device must be used not a simulator. When we remove the device activity framework this error also occurs for the family controls framework. We have added the Family Controls(development) Capability and applied for the distribution capability. We have redownloaded xcode multiple times on the main device, deleted derived data, and redownloaded all of the iphone SDKs and the issue still persists.
I created a package using "File > New > Package" and now I want to add a new Asset Catalog to this package. With my package selected in the project navigator I select "File > New > File" but it creates a Swift file instead of showing the Template Selection dialog
Ref: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/managing-assets-with-asset-catalogs#Create-a-new-asset-catalog
Hi.
I have a xcframework that has a dependency on 'RxSwift' and 'RxCocoa'. I deployed it using SPM by embedding it in a Swift Package.
However when I import swift package into another project, I keep getting the following error:
"Missing required module 'RxCocoaRuntime"
How can I fix this?
Below are the steps to reproduce the error.
Steps
Create Xcode proejct, make a dependency on 'RxSwift' and 'RxCocoa' (no matter doing it through tuist or cocoapods)
Create XCFramework from that proejct. (I used commands below)
xcodebuild archive \
-workspace SimpleFramework.xcworkspace \
-scheme "SimpleFramework" \
-destination "generic/platform=iOS" \
-archivePath "./SimpleFramework-iphoneos.xcarchive" \
-sdk iphoneos \
SKIP_INSTALL=NO \
BUILD_LIBRARY_FOR_DISTRIBUTION=YES
xcodebuild archive \
-workspace SimpleFramework.xcworkspace \
-scheme "SimpleFramework" \
-archivePath "./SimpleFramework-iphonesimulator.xcarchive" \
-sdk "iphonesimulator" \
SKIP_INSTALL=NO \
BUILD_LIBRARY_FOR_DISTRIBUTION=YES
xcodebuild -create-xcframework \
-framework "./SimpleFramework-iphoneos.xcarchive/Products/Library/Frameworks/SimpleFramework.framework" \
-framework "./SimpleFramework-iphonesimulator.xcarchive/Products/Library/Frameworks/SimpleFramework.framework" \
-output "./SimpleFramework.xcframework"
Embed in Swift Package, and deploy.
// swift-tools-version: 6.0
// The swift-tools-version declares the minimum version of Swift required to build this package.
import PackageDescription
let package = Package(
name: "SimplePackage",
platforms: [.iOS(.v16)],
products: [
.library(
name: "SimplePackage",
targets: ["SimplePackage"]),
],
dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxSwift", from: "6.8.0")
],
targets: [
.binaryTarget(
name: "SimpleFramework",
path: "Sources/SimpleFramework.xcframework"
),
.target(
name: "SimplePackage",
dependencies: [
"SimpleFramework",
"RxSwift",
.product(name: "RxCocoa", package: "RxSwift")
]
)
]
)
Download Swift Package in another project and import module.
I resolved this by removing dependencies from the Swift Package, downloading package in another project, and fetching dependencies by cocoapods.
Thist works, but I don't want to use another dependency manager while using SPM.
Development Environment
CPU : Apple M4 Max
MacOS : Sequoia 15.3
Xcode : 16.2
I have an AppleTV app which I released in 2016. I've updated it and released a new version every year without much hassle.
This year, with tvOS 17.2, the layered app icon isn't working right. This is a two-layer image made with PNGs.
When it's selected, it looks right and the layers move correctly:
But when it's not selected, the background layer disappears:
Screenshots are from the simulator but it also happens on the device. It's inconsistent; sometimes it's the front layer that disappears. Occasionally both layers work, but I can't tell why.
I've spent a day trying everything. Very frustrated.
The icon previews correctly in Xcode and in Parallax Viewer.
The image sizes are correct: 400 x 240 for Small, 800 x 480 for Small@2x, 1280 x 768 for Large.
The back layer is a non-transparent PNG.
I tried adding a Large@2x set. Didn't help.
Originally I had a three-layer image with no middle layer PNG. I deleted the empty middle layer, but that didn't help.
All the PNG files are from GnuIMP. Same color space, even.
I was using the filenames tvicon-back-s.png and tvicon-back-s@2x.png. I tried taking out the @ sign in case that was confusing Xcode. (It never has before, but I am flailing here.)
Anybody have any clues? If it's an Apple bug and there's nothing I can do, I'm going to just push the release button and hope it fixes itself someday.
Please see detail here.
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
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I'm trying to add an iMessage extension to my app, and upon adding the iMessage App Icon set, I ran into an issue with one specific icon size: 1024x768px, aka 1x 1024x768pt.
When I remove this one icon from the icon set, it compiles and runs fine, however I can't push it to the App Store as I get the error: "Asset validation failed. Missing Image Asset. Your app is missing the Large App Icon asset 'AppIcon' in 'Payload/Runner.app/PlugIns/MessagesExtension.appex'." I'm assuming this refers to 1024x768px, as this size placeholder appears upon adding a New Messages Extension Icon to my assets folder, and 1024x1024 is already included and compiles fine with it.
However, when I add the 1024x768 icon, and try to run the app, I get the error: "Command CompileAssetCatalog failed with a nonzero exit code"
The app icon's filename is correct, it is exactly 1024x768 px, and my contents.json correctly includes :
{
"filename" : "AppIcon_1024x768.png",
"idiom" : "ios-marketing",
"platform" : "ios",
"scale" : "1x",
"size" : "1024x768"
}
as is the same format for all of my other icons that work.
Why am I running into this issue upon inclusion of this one required size? How do I fix it?
I have a Mac Mini (M4) running macOS Sequoia 15.3.1.
I very recently downloaded and installed the current version of XCode from the app store. I have not added any extensions - it's a vanilla, un-customized, un-enhanced installation.
I have two user profiles (accounts) on my Mac: one Administrator and one Standard, each using a different apple account. I am using the Standard user account to learn XCode.
When I attempt to set up a project, I get an error message when Xcode initially tries to save the (provided) project template file. The error states:
"Failed to save Project2.xcodeproj. The backing file has been modified outside of XCode."
I am using a NAS drive to store my project file. I have also tried saving it to the Desktop. It makes no difference to the error wherever the file is being saved.
Similarly, I tried changing the Standard user account to an Administrator account to see if it was a privileges problem. Again, it made no difference to the error message. (So I changed the account back to a Standard user).
I have tried googling the error but I only find references to problems related to extension/add-in products to XCode: none of which have I added to my XCode installation.
I am attaching screenshots of the steps through the project creation process. Hopefully someone can tell me what I am doing wrong or what the problem is.
Thank you.
I am developing a game that has 3 team members.
I can manually start up 3 simulators and run the game for developing/testing but seem like there should be a simple way to click build/run and have it launch on all three automatically.
Does anyone know how to do this or if its even possible without writing some scripts?
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
Xcode
when opening Main.storyboard, all screens turn black, XCode freezes, and then closes. I am adding the font according to this guide. I'm trying to add Inter-VariableFont_opsz,wght.ttf of the https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter
Why are asynchronous tasks not executed in Xcode Canvas, and why do they only work in the simulator?
Hi everyone, I'm new to Xcode and iOS development. I've encountered an issue where asynchronous tasks seem to not execute in Xcode Canvas, but they work fine in the simulator. Can anyone explain why this might be happening or what I could do to fix it? Thank you for your help!
struct PartnerProfileView: View {
@State private var showSheet: Bool = true
let partnerName: String
var body: some View {
ZStack(alignment: .bottom) {
Color("EFEFF4_0F2534")
ScrollView(showsIndicators: false) {
headerSection()
infoSection()
.padding(.bottom, 5)
sectionTitle("Other Skills")
skillsGrid()
sectionTitle("···")
dynamicsSection()
}
.frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity)
CustomTabBar()
}
.navigationBarHidden(true)
.ignoresSafeArea(edges: .all)
.onAppear {
print("PartnerProfileView received")
Task {
await BottomCustomPopup().present()
}
}
.onChange(of: showSheet) { oldState, newValue in
print("oldState \(oldState)")
print("newValue \(newValue)")
}
}
}
//@MainActor
struct BottomCustomPopup: BottomPopup {
var body: some View {
HStack(spacing: 0) {
Text("Hello World")
Spacer()
Button(action: { Task { await dismissLastPopup() }}) { Text("Dismiss") }
}
.padding(.vertical, 20)
.padding(.leading, 24)
.padding(.trailing, 16)
}
}
I just started working with Flutter. I use a Macbook m2 and my phone is an iPhone XR. I made a very simple application but no matter what I did, I couldn't start my application on my iPhone XR. I got help from all the AIs but we couldn't do it. I deleted everything including Xcode, Android Studio and Flutter and reinstalled them and I followed the SDK installation step by step on the Flutter page but I can't run my project on Xcode. I entered my Apple account including all the signings and certificates via the .workspace file extension but it didn't work. The error I get from Xcode keeps changing. We installed podfiles with the support I got from the AIs and after some fiddling, I got the only error right now: Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code
So I started a project in Xcode but without GitHub.
Now I have prepared Xcode for GitHub and kind of made it work.
I have also made a folder where I have cloned my project from GitHub.
So is there any way to connect Xcode and the new folder. If I save my project it doesn't know about my new folder I presume:
I could continue to use GitHub via Xcode but I'm afraid I will forget about commands in Git if I only use Xcode. If I should work on another project without Git.
We have a big iOS project and we are using .xcconfig files to define our compiler options and build settings.
We have our SWIFT_TREAT_WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS set to YES so that all Swift related warnings will be reported as errors.
Now, we are trying to migrate to Xcode 16.1 and set 'targeted' in the 'Strict Concurrency Checking' flag. This produces some errors that are related to Swift's concurrency checks.
We are now planning to have an approach where we still want to keep SWIFT_TREAT_WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS as is but we want all concurrency related warnings to be still treated as warnings while the rest will get reported as errors.
We found this new compiler option - https://forums.swift.org/t/warnings-as-errors-exceptions/72925.
It looks like the one we want but I think it is still not out yet and we need to wait until Swift 6.1 (correct me if im wrong).
Or is there any other way to do what we want to achieve?
Setup
I have 2 swift packages and I try to use stirng catalog to manage your localizations
I would like to use some specific keys in these packages and some common ones (e.g. "ok_button_tittle")
Problem statement
I really don't like the idea of creating separate (but the same) translations in these packages
I have tried using something like
String(
localized: "ok_button_title",
table: "Localizable",
bundle: .main,
comment: "Ok button title"
)
This does use translations from the main bundle, however this does not automatically create the keys in string catalog
Question
Is there any possibility to reuse the translations from the main bundle?
Maybe there is a hack to make the keys appear automatically in the correct bundle? Or is it a bug?
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
Xcode
Tags:
Swift Packages
Swift
Asset Catalog
Localization
I have a xcode project generated by unity 6
my mac:
my x-code:
It's a simple project but the building time lasted over 10 minutes and I found a page
https://discussions.unity.com/t/optimizing-ios-and-macos-build-times-using-ccache/809570
I tried to run ccache in my mac and hope to accelerate the building.
I installed ccache in my MAC by brew
I made two script with +x mode
I created a testc folder to verify the script
and it did work.
Then I opened the xcode and added CC and CXX to the “Build Settings”
I triggered the building
But it didn’t work, the building used the default compiler.
I had repeated to ask AI about it and cleaned building cache many times, but the problem still exists.
Even without any probing executing of the ccache-clang script ( I configured the log file position, so if it has been executed once, there will be some logs)
Could someone help me check if there’s something wrong?
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
SubTopic:
Xcode
Hello.
We have a few iOS devices connected to CI macs. We test our 3D engine, so we really need hardware devices for that. The issue is that Xcode loses connection to the devices once in a while, mostly after mac reboot, which requires a human to enter test room and unplug and plug cable again. Even if device is visible and accessible in Finder, Xcode may still don't see it, and devicectl shows it as disconnected.
Are there any hacks to make connection stable? The best what we could achieve so far was to remove iOS device screen lock - otherwise mac reboot would in 100% cases require human interaction to reconnect the device.
Both iOS and mac are logged into the same Apple ID.
Mac is logged in automatically after reboot
iOS devices have no screen lock
Thank you.
Just this error is coming again and again I just updated the Xcode today.
Thanks
Zipzy Games
Hi,
What's the difference Swift Packages Frameworks ? for me I see them the same as not an expert developer ? Which should I use ?for example for a SwiftUI UI Kit to be distributed online for sale ?
Kind Regards
Topic:
Developer Tools & Services
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Xcode